Students and staff … Free online trial EBSCO Publishing Research Starters™ - Sociology

Research Starters™ - Sociology... "provides students with a solid foundation for their research and assignments, as well as overview information on topics relevant to their studies.

Comprehensive summaries of discipline-specific topics help students to grasp the broad outlines of a subject, realize its real world applications, critically engage it, and locate sources for advanced research. Articles average 3,000 words, providing concise yet more in-depth content than most textbook or encyclopedia entries".

Contact the library for further information about accessing this resource or visit the supporting EBSCO web site and information page.

Celebrating NAIDOC week

This year the National Aboriginal and Islander Observance Committee’s (NAIDOC) has as its theme “Honouring our elders, nurturing our youth”. The library has on display in its foyer area supporting resources and information from the lending collection.

Some titles and shelf numbers include:
Australian Aboriginal culture 305.89915/CRAW

Going bush 919.4047/GOIN

Dreaming stories: a springboard for learning 372.2105/ECAR

Indigenous sporting greats LC 796.089991/ALBE

The Macmillan encyclopedia of Australia’s Aboriginal peoples LC 994.004991/BARL

Outdoor aboriginal games and activities for children 372.210899/NOWL

Sharing our cultures: the story of Aboriginal cultures 305.89915/BARL

DVD
Interactive ochre: working both ways 305.89915/INTE

Journals
Koori Mail P305.89915/KOOR

The official NAIDOC web site has further information on this event .

Winter Break Library Hours

Non-Teaching Week
Monday 29 June 9am-6pm*
Tuesday 30 June 9am-6pm*
Wednesday 1 July 9am-7pm* (Enrolments)
Thursday 2 July 9am-7pm* (Enrolments)
Friday 3 July 9am-5pm*

Vacation Hours
Monday 6 July -Friday 17 July 9.30am-3.30pm*

*Subject to change at short notice

Internet Detective Tutorial

Check out this excellent website which aims to teach students about the positives and negatives of searching the internet.

http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/index.html

What is Internet Detective?

Internet Detective is a free online tutorial designed to help students develop their Internet research skills. The tutorial looks at the critical thinking required when using the Internet for research and offers practical advice on evaluating the quality of web sites.
The tutorial is specifically designed to help university and college students to develop skills that will help them use the Internet more effectively to support their research for coursework and assignments.
It takes around an hour to complete the tutorial, though the advantage of an online tutorial is that students can go over the material as often as they wish, practice their skills and test their understanding. It can easily be embedded into taught courses, Web pages and VLEs and is freely available in two formats; a Web version and a downloadable version for use in Virtual learning Environments (VLEs).

Used in conjunction with Study Skills for TAFE Students and you can't go wrong!

http://www.swsi.tafensw.edu.au/students/library/infolit/index.html

Keep up-to-date the easy way! OR Looking for a DVD or Video for class?

New titles!

Bookmark your library’s blog site: ://millercollegelibrary.blogspot.com/

On the right hand side of the screen click on “New titles (Miller)”, and you will be linked into all the new titles Miller has received during the past month.

Looking for a DVD or Video for class?

Go to you now bookmarked Miller College Library blog site. On the right hand side of the screen click on “DVDs and Videos (Miller)”, and you will be linked into all the titles Miller has on offer. To make it easier they are grouped by subject headings.

Staff Knowledge Cafe: SWSI wiki

In this Knowledge Cafe you will learn:

How to get your own wiki on SWSI wikispace

How to add content to your wiki

About the wiki management tools including inviting and removing members, extra pages and resources

• ...and be able to talk about any issues, policies and procedures related to using SWSI wikispaces.

Please reserve your place as this activity is limited to 15 attendees.

Please note that no release is available for this activity.

Date: 25 May 2009

Time: 11.30am-12.30pm

Venue: Miller Library, M.G.30

Contact: ITBLU - 9796 5455

Free Children’s Music on the Internet

Have you got a Child Studies assignment where you need music for kids?

Have you left it until the last minute? And you need children’s music urgently?

If you answered yes to any of these questions the internet might just have the answer for you.

http://freekidsmusic.com/ Features songs from a host of independent artists who produce music for young audiences. All are guaranteed to feature child-friendly lyrics, be of a professional quality and most are tunes that parents will be happy to bop along to. Offerings include punk-influenced songs from bands called Boogers and Jam Toast, shoo-wop ditties about pancakes, and sing-a-longs about monkeys, spiders and dancing teddy bears.

http://www.mamalisa.com/ Mama Lisa’s World: of children and international culture, has a range of items available to the user such as, “The House of English nursery rhymes”, “Children’s poetry”, “Food and recipes of the world” and “Kid songs from around the world”. Select a continent or choose a country by a letter of the alphabet, to access the music available. Just look for the following symbols:

Midi - this song has a Midi tune

MP3 - this song has an MP3 recording